AWB Chapter 391 Socialist Successor
Chapter 391 Socialist Successor
At the urging of others, the girl named Elizabeth raised her hand and touched her silky, smooth and shiny champagne-colored wavy hair.
The ruby earrings, as light as water drops, are looming and dazzling, complementing the gold enamel emerald scale bracelet on her wrist.
The girl walked towards Bai Yuan with her hands on her hips. Even though her posture was full of innate superiority and arrogance, her steps and demeanor were still elegant and steady. She could walk on her five-centimeter-high heels as if they were flat ground, and every time her heels hit the ground, they made a sound of extreme confidence.
Elizabeth walked straight past the others and stood in front of Bai Yuan, staring at Bai Yuan with her golden eyes like a golden dragon, as if she was looking at her own kind or natural enemy who had appeared in the territory to seize territory.
Finally, the girl raised her angelic face proudly and snorted arrogantly, "It was only because I was careless and underestimated the enemy this time that you got lucky enough to win first place! It may not happen next time!"
It has been half a week since the end of this international violin competition, and the final ranking of the competition was announced on the day of the competition.
Bai Yuan overcame all obstacles among the 210 contestants from 32 countries who came to participate in the competition, and finally won unanimous praise from the judges, defeating other contestants and taking the lead with a slight advantage of 0.01, surpassing Elizabeth and winning the first place in this most authoritative international violin competition held every three years.
Before Bai Yuan participated in the competition, Elizabeth, who had won numerous awards since childhood and was known as a "treasure" by the world's top music school, had always regarded the championship of this competition as a sure thing.
For her, losing the first place to Bai Yuan was like a bolt from the blue and a thundering blow to her who was determined to win.
The reason for this is that three years ago, Bai Yuan, as the conductor of the symphony orchestra, led the symphony orchestra of the junior high school of Jingli International Conservatory of Music to win the championship of the first World Junior High School Symphony Group Competition at the first international top music school competition.
In the second-place orchestra at that time, it was Elizabeth who was responsible for the main melody and violin solo.
At that time, Elizabeth still disagreed with Bai Yuan.
After all, team competitions are different from individual competitions. The former pays more attention to teamwork and overall performance effects. Everyone is a part of the performance. In order to create a harmonious group atmosphere, personal characteristics are often sacrificed. Similarly, if there are some technical deficiencies in individuals, they can easily be covered up by the overall performance of the team.
Although Bai Yuan started learning piano in elementary school and practiced every day, she only studied and improved her skills for three short years. Although her piano skills were top-notch in the school, they were still far from the world's top level.
Elizabeth has been a talented player since childhood and has been carefully trained for more than ten years. Her status and dominance in the violin among her peers are roughly equal to Wen Yiche's attainments in the piano at that time.
Therefore, she could easily bypass the interference of other instruments, hear the obvious flaws that Bai Yuan had at the time, and had a rough idea of her ability level.
The conclusion is also:
Although not bad, it is far inferior to myself.
Therefore, he did not take Bai Yuan seriously.
Even though he met Bai Yuan again in the competition, he did not regard her as his opponent or a strong rival.
It was not until Bai Yuan successively broke through the preliminaries, preliminary rounds, and re-examinations, and advanced all the way to the finals, and finally stood in front of her and became the biggest obstacle on her way to winning the championship, that Elizabeth realized the seriousness of the matter.
However, music competitions are different from ball games. Researching your opponent's shortcomings and disadvantages does not increase your chances of winning. Whether you can win the championship depends entirely on the strength of your own ability.
Perhaps it was because he felt the threat posed by Bai Yuan that he developed a sense of crisis.
Elizabeth was not only fully prepared, but she also showed 200% more energy and enthusiasm than usual. In the final, she used all her life's learning to perform a luxurious and beautiful piece of music that seemed like the arrival of heaven.
As a result, the judges deducted points because he exerted too much force and the mood of his performance was too deliberate. The result was not satisfactory. After deducting the highest score and the lowest score, his final score was 0.01 point less than Bai Yuan's.
Just 0.01 minute difference!!!
In the violin genius finals, I met a foreign girl by chance. The strength behind her was so terrifying that I couldn't defeat her no matter how hard I tried!
This was a heavy blow to Elizabeth.
She didn't expect that the final result would be her defeat. Including the symphony team competition, this was the second time she lost to Bai Yuan, and she got the only two second places in her life.
A raging fire suddenly ignited in the girl's unfriendly eyes as she looked at Bai Yuan.
Old enemy!
This is the old enemy!!!
This also marked the beginning of his journey of confronting Bai Yuan head-on and competing with him in every way.
I will definitely crush Bai Yuan in the next competition, return to the top spot, and take back everything I have lost!!!
Looking at the high-spirited and confident girl in front of him, Bai Yuan, even though he was sitting on a bench under the green grass, was not inferior to her in temperament or momentum. He even surpassed her because he was too calm and composed.
Facing Elizabeth's daily routine of threatening others, Bai Yuan nodded as usual, his expression unchanged, and said calmly, "Oh, keep going."
Elizabeth:…
There's a feeling of powerlessness as if you gathered all your strength but ended up punching the air and all your strength was wasted.
Although the locals adhere to Darwinian thinking of admiring the strong, the more polite you speak, the more likely the other party will think you are a soft persimmon and show cowardice and ignore you.
But there are exceptions.
After all, the prerequisite for speaking politely and courteously is not to be a real dishonest person.
It's a bit like beating up the other person first, and then after beating him so hard that he can't stand up, you reach out your hand to him with a worried look on your face, and ask in a soft voice if he needs help.
This place emphasizes military first and courtesy later.
Bai Yuan just took away the first place in the competition that Elizabeth thought she had secured, which in itself was the best reflection of her strong strength, and she had already fulfilled the prerequisite of beating someone up.
Therefore, to Elizabeth, these words were not a sign of weakness, but rather a provocation and mockery to herself.
Translated, it means: "Wow, look at what you are capable of. If you have the guts, just give it a try, you defeated rookie! Is one hand enough for me to use? Don't go back and cry for your mom after losing the game! Losers only deserve to sit with trash!!!"
It was just that Bai Yuan's tone and attitude when he said this were so frivolous, without any of the battlefield atmosphere full of sparks, that it was impossible to continue.
Therefore, Elizabeth, who had a lot to say but nowhere to vent, was so choked up by these light words that her face turned red.
Finally, the girl with a flamboyant temperament could only continue to glare at Bai Yuan with a vicious look that had no lethality. Then she raised her hand to touch her long, smooth champagne-colored hair, posing the classic provocative posture in the movie, and said fiercely:
"Humph! Just wait and see!"
Bai Yuan:......
Ever since Bai Yuan won first place in the competition, such conversation opportunities have occurred every day.
Whenever she came to school to find Wen Yiche, she would happen to meet Elizabeth while waiting, and the other party would always run up to her and say such cruel words.
Even if they couldn't meet each other sometimes, as long as Elizabeth heard from others that "Wen's" sister came to the school to see him again, she would put down what she was doing and rush to her to complete the day's check-in before Bai Yuan left the school.
Both Wen Yiche's classmates and Bai Yuan himself were no longer surprised by this kind of provocation that was much ado about nothing.
As the familiar conversation that the two of them had every day was coming to an end, one of the girls who had just taken the initiative to greet Bai Yuan raised her head and waved her cell phone covered with rhinestones at the two of them.
"Bo, Elizabeth, something interesting happened outside the school. Anna and I are going to go over to take a look. Do you two want to come with us?"
"What interesting thing?" Upon hearing this, Elizabeth, who was about to leave, suddenly became interested and said with an attitude of "I allow you to report it."
"It is said that a super cool and handsome guy appeared in the coffee shop across the street. Many people went to chat him up, but so far no one has succeeded! It looks like fun and challenging, so let's give it a try!"
Hearing what the other party said, without waiting for Bai Yuan to answer, Elizabeth stepped forward and walked back to her again, with her hands on her hips in the same posture as before, and said in a different tone:
"Great, Bai, let's make this a competition and see who can be the first to successfully pick him up!"
As she spoke, the girl's eyes burned with a flame of fighting spirit, "This time, I will definitely not lose to you!"
Affected by cultural differences, Bai Yuan did not understand the meaning of the other party's use of chatting up as the purpose of the competition. He looked at her in confusion and said calmly:
"Why do we have to compete in chatting up?"
Elizabeth said as a matter of course: "Of course it's to prove my charm! If you and I can get the person that others can't get, then we will be the most charming people in the whole school!"
Due to different national conditions, the locals not only have huge differences in their views on love with the Chinese, but they also tend to compare with each other in all kinds of strange places.
In China, people generally pursue the pure beauty of being each other's first love, and being loyal to each other. Even if they compete with each other, they are competing to see who can be the first to win the school belle or the school hunk and make the other person fall in love with them.
But locally it is just the opposite.
The number of boyfriends and girlfriends a person has can be used as a basis for discussing whether a person is attractive or not. The more exes a person has, the more it shows how popular he or she is.
If someone has never had a romantic relationship in high school, has never held someone's hand, and has never reached third base at least once before adulthood, it means that this person must be extremely boring and unattractive.
Thinking of this, Elizabeth puffed out her chest with great pride, looked at Bai Yuan with proud eyes, and boasted:
"I've had three boyfriends when I was your age! When it comes to personal charm, I'm definitely not inferior to you!"
Bai Yuan:......
Bai Yuan: "I'll give it to you."
She didn't really want to win in such a strange place.
"Hey————!!!" Elizabeth, who was full of confidence a second ago, suddenly got angry.
Then, she grabbed Bai Yuan's wrist and pulled her up from the chair, "Do you think I will be complacent about winning without a fight? I don't want your charity! I don't care! I don't care! I don't care!!! You must accept my challenge today no matter what!!!"
Seeing that Bai Yuan was still unmoved and was performing a one-man show, the girl pulled the corners of her mouth and laughed mysteriously, "Are you afraid of me? Alas, I also know that I am extremely charming. It is reasonable that you would be afraid of losing to me--"
Bai Yuan read out emotionlessly: "Yes, I'm afraid——"
“Don’t admit defeat!!!” Before Bai Yuan could finish her words, Elizabeth shouted and covered her mouth with her hand. “Since you are so self-aware, I will allow you to witness my victory!!! Let’s go!!!”
The people around him also chimed in, "Haha, let's go, Bai. Elizabeth really wants to see the fun. She's almost dying of anxiety."
"Hello----!!!"
Bai Yuan:......
Although Elizabeth would come over and say a bunch of meaningless harsh words every time she saw him, Bai Yuan had only known her for less than a week.
During this week, the things that the other party compared himself with included and were no less than:
height.
"Haha, I'm three centimeters taller than you. I win!"
age.
"I'm four months and eight days older than you! Let's see who's the little sister!"
first name.
"My full name is Elizabeth Christiane Lacy Windsor, which is several times longer than yours! I win!"
And... status.
"The current queen is my cousin, so I have a quarter of royal blood in me! What about you?"
The first few times Bai Yuan did not argue with her, allowing her to be complacent with her so-called "victory".
As for the latter, as a child of a prominent family, Bai Yuan answered unexpectedly but reasonably:
“I am the successor of socialism.”
Elizabeth: “…”
It was hard to refuse such a kind invitation. At the enthusiastic invitation of several people, Bai Yuan freed himself to send a message to Wen Yiche, informing him that he would be away for a while and where he would be going afterwards, so that the other party could find him more easily. Then he followed them to the school gate.
The cafe can be easily identified at a glance because the entrance is crowded with people who like to watch the fun and seek challenges.
The cafe's window, which is more than one meter high, is large and bright. If it is a holiday such as Christmas, the window will be used as a display window and filled with various decorations to create a festive atmosphere.
But now is the holiday season, and the windows are clean.
Therefore, even though they were across the street, Bai Yuan could clearly see the familiar figure sitting by the window, dealing with the approaching person with increasing impatience, and the pair of eyes that were filled with annoyance, but which did not overwhelm the bright light in them. The owner of those eyes, which were as unique as sapphires and could not be mistaken by her at any time or in any place—
Pei Jin.